Elvis J. Stahr Jr. (Rhodes 1936)
University of Kentucky. Sigma Chi. Rhodes Scholar, University of Oxford.
Member of the Pilgrims Society of the United States.(1916 to 1998. Note, father was also a member 1886 to 1963.)
Served on several corporate boards including Chase Manhatten Corp (Rockefeller) and Aracadia Mutual Life Insurance Co.[7]
27 Honary Degrees.[6]
Member of the U.S. delegation to four international conferences and four Presidential Commissions.[6]
Since 1982, Partner, San Fancisco Law Firm of Chickering & Gregory, P.C.[6]
1976 to 1979 - Director of Chase Manhattan Bank (Rockefeller bank).[7]
1973 to 1973, National Chairman of the USO.[6]
1968 to 1979, President, 1979 to 1981, Senior Counselor, National Audubon Society.[3] ssuming the presidency of the Audubon Society in 1968, he took charge of an organization known chiefly for a little-old-lady-in-tennis-shoes image, and he forged it into a major player in the environmental movement that swept the country. “In 1968, there was not yet a ban on DDT, there was not yet an Environmental Protection Agency or a Council on Environmental Quality, nor were environmental impact statements yet heard of,” Mr. Stahr observed at an environmental conference in 1978.[7]
1966 to 1968 - Deputy Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.
1965 to 1968, President, 1969 to 1974, Chairman, Association of the United States Army.[6] (President Lyndon B. Johnson)
1962 to 1968 - 12th President of Indiana University.[3] Stahr’s presidency saw the Gary and Calumet campuses combined to form IU Northwest, the joint IU–Purdue University campus established in Fort Wayne, the founding of the School of Library and Information Science, and the affiliation of the Herron School of Art in Indianapolis with IU.[3]
1961 to 1962 - Secretary of the Army by President John F. Kennedy. (CIA Sponsored Bay of Pigs, Berlin Crisis and mobilized the Alabama National Guard in 1961, when Kennedy Administration undertook desegating of the University of Alabama).[3] under his direction a major Army reorganization plan was launched, the combat division structure reorganized, special warfare forces expanded, the community relations (civic action) role enlarged, and the Army strengthened during the Berlin crisis;[6]
Preceded by Wilber M. Brucker. Succeeded by Cyrus Vance (S&K 1939)
1959 to 1961 - 14th President of West Virginia University.[3]
1957 to 1959 - Vice Chancellor, University of Pittsburgh.[3][7]
1956 - Staff Director of President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Commission on Education Beyond High School.[7]
1954 to 1957 - Provost of the University of Kentucky.[3]
Korean War - 1951 to 1953 - Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Army for Reserve Forces.[5] 16 month leave of absence, to serve as special assistant to Secretary of the Army Frank Pace Jr.[6][7]
1948 to 1957 - Dean, University of Kentucky College of Law.[3]
1947 - Professor of Law, University of Kentucky.[3]
WW2 - United States Army, Lieutenant Colonel.[3] 1943 - Served in North Africa, and in the Chinese Combat Command, China-Burma-India Theater, 1944 to 1945.[5]
WW2 - 1943 - Officer Student. Yale University. (M.A.).[3] Received a diploma in Chinese language.[5]
1939 to 1943 - University of Oxford (B.C.L., M.A.)
1936 to 1938 - Rhodes Scholar, Merton College, University of Oxford. (B.A.)[1]
Universty of Kentucky (B.A.)
Died 11 Nov 1998, from Cancer. Age 82.
Survivors include his wife of 52 years, Dorothy Howland Berkfield Stahr of Greenwich; three children, Stephanie Stahr of Vienna, Stuart Stahr of Wappinger, N.Y., and Bradford Stahr of Greenwich; and two grandchildren.[7]
[2] - FYI - Wiki - Elvis J. Stahr Jr. (Rhodes 1936)
[3] - Indiana University - Biography - Elvis J. Stahr Jr. (Rhodes 1936)
[4] - Find a Grave - Elvis J. Stahr Jr. (Rhodes 1936)
[5] U.S. Army Center of Military History - Elvis J. Stahr Jr. (Rhodes 1936)
[6] - Arlington Cemetery - Elvis J. Stahr Jr. (Rhodes 1936)
[7] - ELVIS J. STAHR JR. DIES by Bart Barns (12 Nov 1998)
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